The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
- 7.3
- 1974
- Released
- 1h 49m
Bruno S.
Kaspar Hauser
Walter Ladengast
Professor Daumer
Brigitte Mira
Haushälterin Käthe
Willy Semmelrogge
Ringmaster
Hans Musäus
Unknown Man
Michael Kroecher
Lord Stanhope
Henry van Lyck
Calvary Captain
Enno Patalas
Pastor FuhrmannVolker Elis Pilgrim
Pastor #2
Volker Prechtel
Hiltel, the prison guardGloria Doer
Frau HiltelHelmut Döring
Little KingAndi Gottwald
young MozartWalter Steiner
country boy #3
Clemens Scheitz
Registrar
Johannes Buzalski
Police OfficerWilly Meyer-Fürst
DoctorAlfred Edel
Logic ProfessorFranz Brumbach
bear showman
Herbert Fritsch
MayorWilhelm Bayer
employee of the captainPeter Gebhart
man who finds KasparOtto Heinzle
old priestDorothea Kraft
little girlDr. Walter Pflaum
Doctor #2Dr. Heinz Niemöller
Doctor #3Peter-Udo Schönborn
crierMarkus Weller
Julius
Released
de
- #liberation
- #nuremberg, germany
- #curious
Reviews
**_The real-life story of the mysterious Kaspar Hauser put to film by Werner Herzog_** A young man shows up in the square of a town in Bavaria in 1828 (Bruno S.), but he can only speak a few words and can hardly walk. The note in his hand was from someone who cared for him near the Bavarian border since he was an infant. It stated that he had never been let outside the house and wanted to be a
Right - despite the fact that this is based on an actual man and actual events, it is pretty aptly titled. Werner Herzog takes a bit of a punt with his chronology of the life of Kaspar Hauser (a strong performance from Bruno S.) but there are very few definites here except for the fact that we know (or come to know) that he had spent most of his childhood chained to a bed in a cellar with his only